• Fort Wayne Community Schools will lay off more than 100 teachers at its school board meeting Monday night.
• CSX are laying off at least 200 employees or 25% of the workforce in Buffalo. Half of the 800 rail cars that go through Frontier Yard every day will now be re-routed to Ohio, Albany, and Syracuse. Fewer cars to work will mean fewer employees are needed.
• At least 561 Downey Savings & Loan workers in Newport Beach will be laid off over the next five months.
• Monahan Filaments is to lay off 54 workers because orders are down more than 50 percent from last year.
• PPG Industries is laying off 110 people at its fiberglass plant in Lexington. The company cited “unfavorable conditions in the global economy” as a reason for the layoffs.

General Motors Corp. could be majority owned by the federal government under a massive restructuring plan laid out Monday that will cut 21000 U.S. factory jobs by next year and phase out the storied Pontiac brand.

For Pontiac, the decision means the death of a brand known for its muscle cars including the Trans Am made famous in movies and the GTO, the subject of a nostalgic song by Ronny and the Daytonas.

• Conde Nast Publications Inc. is shuttering the business magazine Portfolio and its Web site, Portfolio.com, and laying off more than 80 people.
• The U.S. Treasury Office of Thrift Supervision will close and 110 employees will be laid off.
• Clearwater Paper is laying off about 50 paperboard employees.
• Hanesbrands Inc. will lay off 500 employees in corporate management and distribution operations to reduce costs.
• Faced with declining revenues and a recession, Riverside County proposed 1000 jobs  cuts or roughly 5% of the county workforce — including hundreds of public safety jobs.
• Lucia Mar makes more than 50 job cuts.
• Outdoors outfitter L.L. Bean has notified employees that it plans to lay off 200 to 240 members of its Maine-based work force because of lagging sales.
• The Chicago Tribune is cutting 53 jobs as part of a newsroom reorganization designed to help the newspaper weather the Economic Downturn.

Total losses = 22265

• Bloomers lays off 127 workers.  Bloomers makes components for diesel engines.
• Barneys New York is eliminating 76 positions. From sales people to corporate executives, the cuts are wide-ranging. The retailer said the cuts were effective Monday.
• In Houston, that city’s only daily, the Chronicle has announced it has begun laying off about 12 percent of its work force. At present there is no exact number on how many will go.
• Hunton & Williams is on the verge of big layoffs, says Above the Law. It seems the firm has been quietly laying off partners in the last two months, recently froze associate salaries, and offered an early retirement program of unknown scope to staff.
• General Motors Corp. starts laying off white-collar workers as part of its restructuring plan, with 160 people losing jobs at its technical center in Warren, Mich.
• Los Angeles Times photographer Lori Shepler, photo editor Tracy Silveria and video journalist John Vande Wege have been laid off. The paper is owned by the Tribune company, which is in bankruptcy. You can find the letters from some of the above people telling the world they have been laid off.
• New York Gov. David Paterson has ordered that more than 4 percent or 8900 of state government workers be laid off. The total workforce is over 200000.
• Dell’s Limerick closure to cause 9500 job losses.
• The rate at which architects are joining the dole has accelerated to a year-on-year increase of 760%, it has emerged.
• The Newseum, the news museum in Washington DC was forced to make 13 job cuts last week as a result of funding cuts.
• Transport For London said 1000 posts will go at London Underground, including some lost after maintenance work was brought back in-house following the collapse of Metronet, and another several hundred at Transport for London.
• Removals company Pickfords could go through a pre-pack administration putting more than 1000 jobs at risk, despite only being rescued 12 months ago.
• A Newcastle law firm Watson Burton says it is looking at cutting about 75 staff.
• Kaleidoscope Travel Group has been forced to lay off 60 staff at Travelsphere and Page & Moy after weakening demand for escorted tours.

Total losses = 20898

First Group has announced plans to cut 3500 jobs – representing 3 per cent of its cost base – over the next year in one of the most drastic responses yet by a bus and rail group to the Economic Downturn.

FirstGroup, which has 140000 employees, said the job cuts would be split evenly between the US and the UK. About a third of the 1750 jobs to be axed in Britain will be in rail, with two-thirds in the bus division.

Total losses = 3500

There are not enough trains running on our rail networks, which is the main reason each day we are packed like sardines into the coaches. On top of that we are charged ridiculously high fairs for the luxury of sniffing another persons armpits, or sitting on disgusting seats looking at grafitti on the windows and now we hear there will be 460 job cuts from South West Tains. That equals 74 services. The other day it was Southeastern railways. It’s totally insane. WHY?

Quoted from Reuters

South West Trains, run by train operator Stagecoach Group (SGC.L), said on Thursday it was to axe 480 jobs including managerial staff, blaming an expected fall in passenger numbers because of the Economic Downturn.

Total losses = 480

Related Web Links:

• South West Trains to cut 500 staff – Your Local Guardian.
• Trains replaced by ‘cattle trucks – The Press Association.
  

Southeastern to cut up to 300 jobs in the course of 2009.

Job losses: 300

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• Herald Tribune